BBC Documentaries
Easter Rising 1916: Eoin MacNéill, The Rebellion's Forgotten Man?
TV-PG
2016 • E91 Mar 26, 2016 60mA champion of the Irish language, he founded the Gaelic League, an organisation which aimed to encourage the use of Irish in everyday life, in 1893.
He was a founding member of the Irish Volunteers, a group that played a major role in the Easter Rising, in 1913 and became its chief of staff.
But, he has gone down in history as the man who tried to stop the Easter Rising.
He was a founding member of the Irish Volunteers, a group that played a major role in the Easter Rising, in 1913 and became its chief of staff.
But, he has gone down in history as the man who tried to stop the Easter Rising.